prelude

/prel-yood, preyl-, prey-lood, pree-/US // ˈprɛl yud, ˈpreɪl-, ˈpreɪ lud, ˈpri- //UK // (ˈprɛljuːd) //

前奏,前奏曲,序幕,前言

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- : any action, event, comment, etc. that precedes something else.
- : Music. a relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation.a piece that precedes a more important movement.the overture to an opera.an independent piece, of moderate length, sometimes used as an introduction to a fugue.music opening a church service; an introductory voluntary.

v.有主动词 verb

1
prel·ud·ed, prel·ud·ing.
- : to serve as a prelude or introduction to.
- : to introduce by a prelude.
- : to play as a prelude.

v.无主动词 verb

nounbeginning of event

Synonyms

Maybe, he hopes, acting well onstage will serve as a prelude to acting better in real life.
Morell emphasized that SolarWinds appears to have "just" been espionage and not, apparently, some type of prelude to destruction.
It was a prelude for Brooks, and by the time he got to his microphone, my imagination was primed.
It felt like a prelude, a 26-year-old entering the mastery phase of stardom.
Perhaps as a prelude to this attempt, researchers just published a number of new studies about the geochemistry of Bennu today in the journals Science and Science Advances, providing some of the biggest revelations to date.
There was an entryway near here to another courtyard, itself a prelude to the heart of the main temple.
This could be a prelude to peace talks—or intensified fighting.
Or will they be merely the dark prelude to an even darker future?
We should hope this only sounds like a prelude to an intervention.
Marguerite hoped it would be the prelude to a book she wanted to write, and asked if I could get it published somewhere.
A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into a bore.

/prel-yood, preyl-, prey-lood, pree-/US // ˈprɛl yud, ˈpreɪl-, ˈpreɪ lud, ˈpri- //UK // (ˈprɛljuːd) //

前奏,前奏曲,序幕,前言

n.名词 noun

1
- : a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- : any action, event, comment, etc. that precedes something else.
- : Music. a relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation.a piece that precedes a more important movement.the overture to an opera.an independent piece, of moderate length, sometimes used as an introduction to a fugue.music opening a church service; an introductory voluntary.

v.有主动词 verb

1
prel·ud·ed, prel·ud·ing.
- : to serve as a prelude or introduction to.
- : to introduce by a prelude.
- : to play as a prelude.

v.无主动词 verb

nounbeginning of event

Synonyms

Maybe, he hopes, acting well onstage will serve as a prelude to acting better in real life.
Morell emphasized that SolarWinds appears to have "just" been espionage and not, apparently, some type of prelude to destruction.
It was a prelude for Brooks, and by the time he got to his microphone, my imagination was primed.
It felt like a prelude, a 26-year-old entering the mastery phase of stardom.
Perhaps as a prelude to this attempt, researchers just published a number of new studies about the geochemistry of Bennu today in the journals Science and Science Advances, providing some of the biggest revelations to date.
There was an entryway near here to another courtyard, itself a prelude to the heart of the main temple.
This could be a prelude to peace talks—or intensified fighting.
Or will they be merely the dark prelude to an even darker future?
We should hope this only sounds like a prelude to an intervention.
Marguerite hoped it would be the prelude to a book she wanted to write, and asked if I could get it published somewhere.
A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into a bore.